On the use and misuse of externalist approaches in psychiatry

Frontiers in Psychology

Gerhard C. Bukow¹ 

关键词: externalism;    extended cognition;    reliability;    biological psychiatry;    philosophy of science;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00785

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Walter (2013) argues in that a bunch of externalist approaches examined in the theory of mind is interesting for psychiatry—especially for biological psychiatry. The externalist approaches state that mental states are not only constituted by internal but also by external factors. He subsumes them under the so-called 4E-thesis: embodied, embedded, extended, enacted. His example is concerned with ADHD such that ADHD is only existent “in an environment that favors attentional distraction and punishes hyperactivity.”.

【 授权许可】

CC BY